Improvement in vehicle-poles



B. H. SHEARER. Vehicle-Pole. Patented DEC. 3, 1878.

Z, n H M UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENSON H. SHEARER, OF BUSHFOBD, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN VEHlCLE-POLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,568, dated December 3, 1878 application filed October 4, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BENSON H. SHEARER, of Rushford, in the county of Allegany, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Vehicle Poles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to that class of vehicle-poles which are provided with adjustable eye-pieces, so as to permit the distance between the eye-pieces to be regulated to corre spond with the distance between the drawclips of the vehicle, whereby one pole is enabled to be used for a number of different vehicles.

My invention consists of the particular construction of the device, whereby the range of adjustment is rendered very large, and the connection between the eye-pieces and the pole made very secure, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 'l is a bottom-plan view of the rear portion of a vehicle-pole provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a fragmentary bottom-plan view, showing one of the adjustable eye-pieces in its extreme outer position. Fig. 4 is a vertical section in line 00 m, Fig. 1.

Like letters of reference designate like parts in each of the figures.

A represents the pole; B, the curved crosspiece arranged at the rear end thereof, and O G the braces connecting the pole with the cross-piece. D D are the adjustable eyepieces, each constructed with an elongated flat plate or leaf, cl, which is curved to correspond with the curvature of the cross-piece B. Each leaf d is provided with a longitudinal slot, 6, and a bolt-hole, f, arranged between the end of the slot 0 and the end of the leaf.

9 g are two slots or elongated openings arranged in the cross-piece B, and correspondin g in size with the slots 6, formed in the leaves d. The slots 9 are arranged at such a distance from the ends of the cross-piece that when the eye-pieces D are arranged in their outermostposition the bolts h, passing through the bolt-holes f of the leaves (1, will bear against or be close to the outer ends of the slots 9.

dis a bolt-hole arranged in the cross-piece B, near the outer end of each slot 9, and 7c is a bolt passing through the hole i and the slot e of the leaf of the eye-piece.

The bolts k are stationary with reference to the cross-piece B, and the bolts h are stationary with reference to the leaves cl, so that the bolts h and k approach each other in adjusting the eye-piece outward, and recede from each other when the eye-piece is moved in the opposite direction,the bolt h sliding in the slot 9 of the cross-piece B, and the bolt 70 in the slot 6 of the leaf cl. Upon loosening the nuts of the bolts h 70 the eye-piece is readily adjusted to the desired position, where, by tightening the nuts again, the eyepiece is firmly secured in place.

A bolt-hole l, is preferably arranged near each end of the cross-piece B, in such manner that when the eye-piece is in its extreme outer position a bolt, m, can be passed through the hole Z and the slot 6 of the leaf, to serve as an additional fastening, as the two bolts h k are in close proximity in this position of the eyepiece. In all'other positions of the eye-piece the extra bolt m is dispensed with.

The peculiar arrangement of the slots 0 g and bolts h It enables a comparatively short leaf to be used without rendering the distance between the bolts so small as to render them unable to securely hold the eye-piece in place.

As the braces G relieve the cross-piece B of strains, the slots 9 do not materially reduce the strength of the cross-piece and pole.

I claim as my invention The combination, with the pole A, of the cross-piece B, provided with slots 9 and boltholes t, the adjustable eye-pieces D D, pro vided with leaves d, having slots 6 and boltholes f, fastening-bolts It, made stationary in the leaves (I, and bolts It, made stationary in the cross-piece B, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

BENSON H. SHEARER.

Witnesses:

RALPH B. LANING, ADELBERT SHEARER. 

